Fly-trap garbage-cover.



'F. LANGBEIN.

FLY TRAP GARBAGE COVER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4- I9I8.

' 1,290,760. Patented Jan. 7,1919.

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FLY TRAP GARBAGE COVER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4. 1918.

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PATENT onrion FRED LANGIBEIN, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

' FLY-TBA]? GARBAGE-COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented. Jan. 7, 1919.

Application filed June 4, 1918. Serial No. 238,174.

.ping and storing vessels, and more especially to garbage receptacles; and the object ofthe same is to produce an improved cover or closure for a garbage can which is so con-.

structed as to trap flies and other insects on both the interior and exterior of the can.

A second object is to make the cover in such a way that it constitutes afly trap even when it is removed from the can.

A third object is to provide special means for cleaning the trap of the flies caught by it.

Other objects will appear in the following specification. Referring to the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a central vertical section through the upper portion of a garbage can with this improved cover,

Fig. 2 is a plan view broken away in segments to show the different parts in plan or section,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail,

Fig. 4 is a perspective detail of the spring.

Referring to the drawings, I provide an ordinary cylindrical garbage can G with a cover C having a handle H. All these parts are by preference of galvanized iron or other metal which will not rust or become contaminated by the contents. No novelty whatever is claimed for the can, and around the mouth of the same is herein illustrated an ordinary bead B.

Coming now to the present invention I form the upper portion of the cover C in dome-shape as indicated at 1, and its top 2 ispractically flat excepting that beneath the handle it is arched a little at 3 and the arched portion is perforated at 4. I may here remark that the word perforations as used herein is designed to indicate holes or openings too small for the passage of flies and other insects which are to be trapped by this device. The side wall 5 of the dome 1 is carried outwardly and crimped at 6 over an outturned flange at the upper edge of a skirt 7 which,as shown herein, is a rather wide annularband of a size to inclose the bead B and preferably havin itself an outturned head 8 at its lower e ge. Attention is' invited to the fact that the side wall 5 of the cover is not carried straight down into this skirt, and the use of the crimp is for other purposes than merely connecting the two members 5 and 7. When the cover is upon the can C the skirt 7 passes outside the same as seen in Fig. 1; when the cover is removed from the can and placed upon some support, as the floor or ground, the bead 8 at the lower end of the skirt rests thereon and the cover itself constitutes a trap as will be described below. Disposed within and extending horiz ontall across the cover are two partitions 10 and 11 spaced one above the other as seen in Fig. 1 to produce an interposed-passage 12'. The partition 10 is a flat disk whose edge is caught within the crimp 6. The partition 11 is likewise a flat disk excepting that it has an upturned and thence outturned flange at its edge also caught within said crimp, and where it is upturned it is pierced with holes indicated at 19 which register with holes indicated at 9 in the skirt 7 just beneath the "crimp; and through this partition 11 inside its upturned flange are other holes 18. The upper partition is perforated as indicated at 13in Fig. 3, whereas most of the lower partition is solid or imperforate. With the exception of the upturned and outturned flange around the periphery of the lower partition, both these partitions are substantially flat; but they are provided through their centers withlarge openings, best. indicated at 15 in Fig. 1, and therefore they are in effect annu lar partitions.

Disposed within. said central openings is what might be called the-trap proper. It has an upright cylindrical wall 20 provided with openings 21 for admitting the flies, a flat bottom 22 also provided with openings 23 and a bead 24 around its edge larger than the central holes 15 through the partitions 10 and 11, and a dome-like cover or top 25 of wire mesh opening at its apex through a neck 26 directed upward toward the center of the top of the coveras seen in Fig. A spring as best seen in Fig. 4 has one end 27 fastened. in the lower partition, a coil 28 rising through the same and engaged over a pin 29, and a long arm 30 underlylng the bottom 23 of the trap and of the shape best seen in Fig. 4 so that it extends for a con siderable distance beneath said bottom, its extremity having a handle 31 as shown. Normally the long arm of this spring bears upward against the bottom of the trap, and

5 holds the whole trap upward so that its bead- 21 into the trap. Through thehOles 23 they pass directly into the trap. Therein they are attracted by the light overhead which shines through the perforations 4 in the cover and through the wire mesh 25, and they fly upward, crawling eventually through the neck 26 and. becoming trapped in the space under the cover and; above the upper partition 10. Meanwhile also flies and other insects on the outside of the garbage can may pass through. the registering holes 91and19 into thepassage12, and follow the samecourse into the space above thetrap proper and: underthe cover. Therefore with the parts assembled this device catches flies and insects on both the inside and the outside of the garbage can. When the cover is taken ofli'and seated on the ground, it will yet catch insects which pass in through the openings or holes 9 and through the passage 12 as described above. From time to time the spring is moved downward by pulling on the handle 31, (the cover at this time being ofi'vthe can) anda the trap proper removed from the large holes and cleaned. This can be done by shaking the flies and carcasses out of it, or running scalding Water through it. With the trap out of the large openings 15, the carcasses within the covercannowbe shaken out, or burned or scalded in the same manner. Thereafter the parts are reassembled, and the cover put back onto thegarbage can.

The foregoing description and the drawings have reference to what may considered the preferred, or approved form of my invention. It is tobeunderstood that I may make such changes in construction and arrangement and combination of parts, materials, dimensions, et' cetera, as may prove, expedient and fall withinv the; scope of the appended claims.

' ,Having thus fully described my inven= tion, what I claimas new and. desire tose: cure by LettersiPatent, is i L'The combination with acylindrical re: tepta avi a d ound t unrer ed e; o a ar r a s kir a rted te inclose saidbead, spaced:partitionsfacross the interior of the cover, the. having. hel l ne ine 9 e Pas age be wt iii en Part t ons are mean at he? t et r at said" passage for directing the trapped insects upward into the space beneath the top of the cover.

2. Thecombination with a cylindrical receptacle having a bead around its upper edge; of a cover having a skirt adapted to inclose said bead, two partitions across the interior of the cover, the skirt having holes opening. to the passage between said partitions, and both partitions having large central openings, a cylindrical wall fitting within said openings and provided with holes for admitting insects from the pas.- sage, and a dome-like top to said'cylindrical element having an open neck communieating with the interior of the, cover.

3., The herein described. cover for garbage cans and the like, the same having a domelike top, a crimp around its sidewall, a

v skirt having an outturned flange at its upper edge caught in said crimp and holes beneath said flange, an upper partition withits edge caught in said-crimp, a lower partition with its edge turned upwardly and outwardly and caught in said crimp andrthe upturned portionprovided with holes registering with those in. the skirt, and means at the center of said partitions for directing, the insects from bflfiweenthem to the space above the upper partition, and beneath the top, of the 0 5 I 4;,v The herein described cover for, garbage cans and the like, the same having a domeliketop, a crimp around. its side wall, a skirt having an outturned flange at its upper edge caught in said crimp andholes beneath said flange, anupper partition with its edge caughtin said crimp, a lower partition with its edge turned upwardly and outwardly and caught in. said crimp and the upturned portion provided with holes registering with those in'the skirt, the upper partition having fine perforations and the lower partitiojn having large holes around it near its edge and both partitions having large openings at their centers,- a cylindrical element mountedin said opening and provided with holes communicating with the passagebetween Said partitions, a conical dome on the top of said element, and a reduced open neck at theapex, of said dome.

'5; In a. device of the type described, the combination with a dome-like cover having 'openingsthrough its skirt, and partitions tions across the interior of the cover respectively above and below said openings,

having large apertures partitions both through having inlet openings the passage bead on its communicating with between the partitions and a bottom projecting under the lower partition, and a spring carried by said Copies of this patent may be obtained f or five cents each, by addressing the partition and having a long arm bearing up- 10 Ward against the bottom of the trap, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- FRED LANGBEIN. Witnesses:

EDWARD OPPENLANDERS, JOSEPH GEIGER.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

